Joelle Taylor
The founder of Slambassadors Joelle Taylor makes her selection of poems
Poetry from Walt Whitman, TS Eliot, Caroline Bird and Kayo Chingonyi feature in poet Joelle Taylor's selection of listener requests.
Joelle was awarded the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry in 2021. She is the founder of Slambassadors and is the author of C+nto & Othered Poems.
Among her choices are an extract from Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic read by Garth Greenwell and Noma Dumezweni and an extract of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself read by Orson Welles.
Producer: Maggie Ayre
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This Week's Poems
‘Valentine’
By Joelle Taylor
From C+nto & Othered Poems
Published by The Westbourne Press
‘We Lived Happily During the War’ / extract from ‘Deaf Republic’
by Ilya Kaminsky
From Deaf Republic
Published by Faber & Faber
Extract read by Garth Greenwell and Noma Dumezweni
Extract from ‘Song of Myself’
By Walt Whitman
From “The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman”
Published by Wordsworth Editions
Extract from ‘On Insomnia’
By Fran Lock
From https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/118578/on-insomnia
It originally appeared in The Poetry Review
Extract from ‘Cohort’
By Fran Lock
From Dogtooth
Published by Out Spoken Press
Extract from ‘The Waste Land’
By TS Eliot
From The Waste Land and Other Poems
Published by Vintage
‘How Men Will Remember their Fathers’
By Anthony Anaxagorou
From After the Formalities
Published by Penned in the Margins
‘Dive Bar’
By Caroline Bird
From The Air Year
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd
Audio courtesy of Forward Arts Foundation
‘Blues for Albert (Prodigy) Johnson & Carl ‘Haystee’ Samuel’
By Kayo Chingonyi
From A Blood Condition
Published by Chatto & Windus
Audio courtesy of Burley Fisher Books
‘Angel’
By Joelle Taylor
From C+nto & Othered Poems
Published by The Westbourne Press
Broadcasts
- Sun 12 Jun 202216:30BBC Radio 4 FM
- Sat 18 Jun 202223:30BBC Radio 4
